'Beto 2020' Buzz Builds Immediately After O'Rourke's Senate Defeat

Cruz argued that his opponent's support for gun control and universal health care were too liberal for Texas.

O'Rourke raised more than $70 million during the heated Senate race, including more than $38 million from the July to September campaign period alone. All people, all the time in every single part of Texas, all of you, showing the country how you do this.

But Cruz's win was not immediately evident, as might have been expected in a normal year for an incumbent Republican senator in Texas.

Cruz, who was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 2012, has been a prominent, if not contentious, figure in the Republican Party. Here's What You Need To Know To Vote Today. In turn, Cruz garnered praise from President Trump, who referred to his former political rival as "Beautiful Ted" in the days ahead of the vote. He and President Trump routinely sparred, and Cruz famously did not endorse the president during his nominating convention.

O'Rourke's defeat also dashed Democrats' decades-long hopes of a booming Texas Hispanic population flipping the country's largest red state blue, potentially transforming the national electoral maps and all-but blocking a Republican path to the presidency.

However, O'Rourke ran his campaign with the assumption that pollsters and political operatives have been wrong about Texas.

Thanking his campaign supporters for their spirited challenge to Sen.

Cruz has for years warned that a Democratic Texas would mean his party would never again win the White House.

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